3 ECTS credits
75 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1020959BER for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Possible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Languages & Humanities
- Department
- Linguistics and Literary Studies
- Educational team
- Birgit Van Puymbroeck
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
26 contact hours Lecture
10 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
This course offers an introduction to poetry in English. It introduces students to a number of basic tools and techniques for poetic analysis and draws on a wide range of examples from the Anglophone canon. Students practice their analytical skills and gain an insight into the variety and development of poetry in English.
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Course reader with selection of poems and critical terms, Additional information, Canvas
Handbook (Recommended) : The Art of Poetry, How to Read a Poem, Wolosky Shira, Oxford University Press, 2001
Handbook (Recommended) : The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms, Baldick Chris, 4de, Osford University Press, 2015
- Additional info
This course is taught in English.
- Learning Outcomes
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Algemene competenties
- The student is familiar with basic tools and terminology for the analysis of poetry.
- The student demonstrates sensitivity with regard to the singularity of poetic language and texts.
- The student demonstrates cultural sensitivity with regard to poetry emerging from various cultural and geographical contexts.
- The student is able to analyze poems independently.
- The student is able to communicate his/her own analysis in academic English.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral exam
with a relative weight of 100
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
Note: Questions relate to: Definitions and exercises, The analysis of a seen poem, The analysis of an unseen poem
- Additional info regarding evaluation
/
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Physics and Astronomy: Default track (only offered in Dutch)